AEG talks to the NFL 2 times a week they are very well of their progress,

]]>By: mellowelvishttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691918
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:45:09 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691918How about LA Vikings. Got the Lakers from MN and it looks like the fine folks from Minneapolis/St Paul are going to screw up the stadium deal. AEG and Wilf’s can figure this out…
]]>By: candyman4881http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691907
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:40:31 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691907jimmylions- considering the NFL has grown leaps and bounds in the last 17 years and just signed another ENORMOUS TV contract without the LA Market through 2023, I would say the NFL is doing just fine without a presense in the LA Market.
]]>By: jimmylionshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691829
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:57:14 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691829For the haters saying the NFL doesn’t work in LA, you might want to do some more homework as to why.

The NFL’s traditional approach to business is extortion. Taxpayers must pay for a stadium and give it to the owner of the team, or the team will leave town. The idea is that a place like Cleveland or Detroit needs the NFL to bring people into downtown.

Los Angeles does not need the NFL to bring people into downtown. This is a desitination city, not a place where you just change planes. Fly-to, not fly-over.

That means that when an NFL owner tries to shake down the citizens of LA County, the response is … “Have a nice flight out of town!”

And as they leave town, they bitterly bash LA fans – all because we wouldn’t hand over several hundred million in taxpayer dollars to a billionaire.

Our city – our rules. AEG is paying the lions share of the cost of the stadium (originally was going to be zero taxpayer cost, but the city agreed to kick in a small portion of the costs). Also, AEG has to build the most environmentally friendly stadium in the history of the NFL.

Bottom line … we’re in a strong enough bargaining position that we can let ateam leave town, wave bye-bye, and laugh at a bitter owner who is upset about not getting a new stadium. The NFL needs LA more than LA needs the NFL.

Also – for the record, the city of Irwindale (about an hour outside of downtown LA) paid Al Davis $10M to movie the Raiders to LA. He pocketed the money and took the team back to Oakland.

]]>By: tiffybeanhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691825
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:52:26 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691825The EIR should never be approved because downtown LA is the WORST possible place to attract cars that all come and leave at the same time. There is already a much better stadium plan – Roski’s in the City of Industry. I don’t know why some reporters are so clueless they don’t mention the “other” stadium.
]]>By: devikesfanhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691677
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:44:09 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691677This stadium will be built and teams will move there. LA supports two NBA teams, two MLB teams, two NHL teams, USC and UCLA. All of these teams do well. A state of art stadium next to Staples, LA Live and the Convention Center is a home run. I agree with previous post – Rams and Chargers.
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But LA cannot keep even a SINGLE NFL team…
The NFL simply does not work in LA.
]]>By: lawest111http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691596
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:21:57 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691596This stadium will be built and teams will move there. LA supports two NBA teams, two MLB teams, two NHL teams, USC and UCLA. All of these teams do well. A state of art stadium next to Staples, LA Live and the Convention Center is a home run. I agree with previous post – Rams and Chargers.
]]>By: theytukrjobshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691565
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:10:40 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691565Everyone realizes that the NFL will be expanding the league by two teams, one or both of which will be in LA. I mean, that is obvious, right?

Vikings aren’t going to move. They are top 5 in TV ratings and have sold out an awful stadium for 15 years straight. Rams fanbase might not be as elite, but they are still quite respectable and willing to throw money in there.

A team like the Jags seems to make sense but they would cost an arm and a leg to break their lease, not to mention the $100 mil fee for selling a team that applies to anyone.

Raiders and Chargers are the only teams with a realistic chance of moving, and only because they are local with roots there.

]]>By: devikesfanhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691556
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:09:11 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691556realitypolice-
I see what you are trying to say. Are you trying to imply that an LA stadium will be nothing BUT luxury boxes?
In order for the TV contracts to work, LA games would have to sell out 72 hours in advance. That may happen the first few years a team is in LA, but it won’t once the novelty wears off. Networks will not continue to pay for the right to broadcast into the nation’s second largest TV market, only to have to take a big hit with blacked out games.
IIRC, there were plenty of blacked out Rams games prior to them leaving for St. Louis. Those blackouts helped convince the Rams to move.
Given the fact that LA lost one team in the sixties, and two more in the nineties, what makes you think there is enough of an interest to keep NFL football viable in LA this time around?
]]>By: candyman4881http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691555
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:08:57 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691555realitypolice says:Mar 30, 2012 3:26 PM

Again from the posters saying how the “fans” won’t come.

Anyone who thinks that ticket sales of normal seats is the most important thing to the NFL is living in the NFL of 25 years ago.

It’s all about TV money and Luxury Suites.

Millionaires and billionaires buy luxury suites even if they could care less about football, and there aren’t many places in the world with more people who have money to burn.

This is why Ed Roski can scream and shout all he wants- this stadium AIN’T being built in COI.

The TV contract, already outrageous will go through the roof with an LA team.

The value of ANY franchise, outside of NY, will skyrocket if moved to LA.

Um……what did the pathetic Dodgers franchise just sell for? LOL.

It’s so cute when fans of team X or team Y say how their team will never move to LA because of it’s “loyal fan base”.

No matter what comes out of their mouths, the day when modern-day owners cared about THAT are long gone.
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You realize that the TV deals are set with the NFL through 2023 right? According to your logic, the NFL does not need LA until 2023 at least

Raider nation baby raiders are coming home
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What a retard. hey, newsflash raider fan, the raiders were founded in Oakland, LA was just a fling for 10 years. they are home dumbass! lol. Now the Rams you can say they are coming home.

oh LA fans.. shows how much you guys know about the NFL. dont you have a laker game to go watch?

How many stadiums that rely solely on individual seat ticket sales and NOT on luxury box revenue have been built since then?

How much has the TV contract value gone up since then?

Read my post again and see if you can understand what I am saying this time.

]]>By: AlohaMrHandhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691476
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:28:38 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691476ern215 says:
Mar 30, 2012 4:11 PM
Raiders should be the team to move. They’re not getting a new stadium in Oakland and I can’t see them sharing the Santa Clara stadium with the Niners. They have already set up shop with their HQ in Santa Clara.
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the raiders hq is in alameda, smart guy.

Clearly, they’re a candidate….when you operate $30M under the cap year after year and don’t even try to spend the $, you’re doing it because you can’t afford to spend it.

No playoff wins in 19 years, no Super Bowls in 40 years – move them to a city that can spend money to be competitive.

]]>By: metalhead65http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691443
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:20:28 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691443nobody particularly “fans” who did not support the 2 teams they had in there care! just stop the madness now! even better it is great they can’t get a stadium built causing the owners the rams and vikings not to be able to blackmail their cities into building stadiums they can’t afford.
]]>By: devikesfanhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691438
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:19:48 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691438realitypolice says:Mar 30, 2012 3:26 PM

Again from the posters saying how the “fans” won’t come.

Anyone who thinks that ticket sales of normal seats is the most important thing to the NFL is living in the NFL of 25 years ago.

It’s all about TV money and Luxury Suites.

Millionaires and billionaires buy luxury suites even if they could care less about football, and there aren’t many places in the world with more people who have money to burn.

This is why Ed Roski can scream and shout all he wants- this stadium AIN’T being built in COI.

The TV contract, already outrageous will go through the roof with an LA team.

The value of ANY franchise, outside of NY, will skyrocket if moved to LA.

Um……what did the pathetic Dodgers franchise just sell for? LOL.

It’s so cute when fans of team X or team Y say how their team will never move to LA because of it’s “loyal fan base”.

No matter what comes out of their mouths, the day when modern-day owners cared about THAT are long gone.
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And yet, LA has lost THREE football teams. Obviously, once the novelty of a pro football team wears off, Angelenos will abandon that team and switch their focus back to the Lakers, Dodgers, and Trojans.
Any team dumb enough to move to LA might want to sign a three year lease- cause that’s how long it will take for the owners to want to relocate back to a city that will have real fans.

]]>By: ern215http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691410
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:11:00 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691410Raiders should be the team to move. They’re not getting a new stadium in Oakland and I can’t see them sharing the Santa Clara stadium with the Niners. They have already set up shop with their HQ in Santa Clara.
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the raiders hq is in alameda, smart guy.
]]>By: godofwine330http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691350
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:55:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691350Yeah, 27 million for a damned report is beyond ridiculous.
]]>By: detroitcityrydahttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691305
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:40:19 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691305Just move the raiders to la build a new stadium and that’s it ,Oakland n la cheer for raiders anyway .
]]>By: voyager6http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691298
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:38:36 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691298Wasn’t it AEG who tried to buy the 30% of the Bengals sold last year by the Arthur Knowlton estate that forced Mike Brown to cough up $200Million to match the offer to keep the team in Cincinnati?

That would have put the value of the Bengals at $660Million, a real discout from the $950 Million (or so) that Forbes rated them at.

Anyone who thinks that ticket sales of normal seats is the most important thing to the NFL is living in the NFL of 25 years ago.

It’s all about TV money and Luxury Suites.

Millionaires and billionaires buy luxury suites even if they could care less about football, and there aren’t many places in the world with more people who have money to burn.

This is why Ed Roski can scream and shout all he wants- this stadium AIN’T being built in COI.

The TV contract, already outrageous will go through the roof with an LA team.

The value of ANY franchise, outside of NY, will skyrocket if moved to LA.

Um……what did the pathetic Dodgers franchise just sell for? LOL.

It’s so cute when fans of team X or team Y say how their team will never move to LA because of it’s “loyal fan base”.

No matter what comes out of their mouths, the day when modern-day owners cared about THAT are long gone.

]]>By: lbraidershttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691220
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:21:37 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691220Raider nation baby raiders are coming home
]]>By: xtutxhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691186
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:14:07 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691186Seriously, why does it take 27 million to do an environment report? Like really how many people and hours could that really take?

Breaks out calculator.

That is 260 people working one full year, no vacations, but weekends off. At $50/hour our 100K per year.

That is what 27 million is. Really? That much effort? Really?

]]>By: Nicholas Tredwayhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691183
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:12:42 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691183I live downtown LA currently (about four blocks from Staples) and am a rabid NFL fan. I’ve been following this story for quite some time now.

The stadium WILL get built, and it will be the CHARGERS who make the move first, followed by the RAMS.

That’s right folks, two teams! You heard it hear first.

]]>By: schmitty2http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691135
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:03:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691135I am a die hard Ram’s fan living in Cali and I’m actually opposed to them moving back. The fans here suck for the most part..they show up late and leave early no matter what the score is and to boot the proposed site is a joke. Anyone that has been down the 110 freeway will understand what I mean
]]>By: dannymac17http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/aeg-stadium-plan-still-moving-forward/#comment-1691124
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:01:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=459744#comment-1691124To bad Toronto is a clown. d
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